The barn is a unique architectural form - simple, spacious, harmonious, its origins going back many hundreds of years to pre-medieval Europe. Through the centuries, it has been a multifunctional and versatile building, used as a storehouse, meeting hall, place of worship and even dwelling place. Filled photographs, this is a record of the history and development of the aisled barn - the result of Malcolm Kirk's long search back into its past. He has travelled all over Europe and America, recording some of the oldest and most beautiful barns that still exist today - some dating back as far as the 12th century. He traces the origins of the aisled barn back even further to the Roman basilica, and then describes how the style spread throughout Europe in its many forms - the monastic tithe barns of medieval Europe; the 12th century urban market halls in France; rural manor halls in England - finally arriving at the vast barns built in Colonial America. Throughout, his images of these ancient buildings are complemented by plans and elevations as well as documentary images from medieval manuscripts and 19th-century prints.

The Barn : Silent Spaces

Arts & Photography

Kirk, Malcolm

Photography & Video

Gardners Books

Man as Art: New Guinea Body Decoration

Strathern, Andrew

Thames and Hudson Ltd.

A striking collection of photographic portraits and images of rare carved masks captures the remarkable facial decorations and ceremonial, tribal dress of the natives and warriors of New Guinea

Man as Art (A Studio Book)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Avery

Kirk, Malcolm / Strathern, Andrew. Man as Art - New Guinea. [With an essay by Andrew Strathern: Dress, Decoration and Art in New Guinea]. Photographs by Malcolm Kirk. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1993. Quarto. 144 pages with photographs throughout the whole book. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Private giftinscription !

Man As Art: New Guinea

Chronicle Books LLC.

Silent Spaces: The Last of the Great Aisled Barns is a striking pictorial celebration of standing examples of these distinctive buildings found in Europe and America by one photographer in his obsessive search for the origins of aisled barns.

Silent Spaces: The Last of the Great Aisled Barns

Architecture

Bulfinch Pr

Les Papous: Peintres Corporelles, Parures et Masques. Introduction by Andrew Strathern

Chene/Hachette

Man As Art: New Guinea Body Decoration

TACO Verlagsgesellschaft

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